The Center Square Staff, Just the News
In the ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge John P. Cronan said the city's recently approved requirements on gun licensing give broad discretion to local police to deny people firearm licenses, violating the Second and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Cronan said the rules, which allow for the denial of a firearm permit on a city official’s determination of the applicant’s lack of “good moral character” or upon the official’s finding of “other good cause,” are broad and unrestrained discretionary standards "which defendants have not shown to have any historical underpinning in our country."
"The provisions fail to pass constitutional muster because of the magnitude of discretion afforded to city officials in denying an individual their constitutional right to keep and bear firearms, and because of defendants’ failure to show that such unabridged discretion has any grounding in our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation," he wrote in the 48-page ruling.
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